Labor

                
  • City workers rally for justice

    City workers rally for justice

    November 7, 2003

    NEW YORK – This city’s workers have not had a raise in over two years and need one now to pay the rent and put food on the table, declared Lillian Roberts, executive director of American...

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  • Victory for St. Louis grocery workers

    Victory for St. Louis grocery workers

    November 7, 2003

    ST. LOUIS – After 25 days of strikes and lockouts, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 655 and Schnuck’s, Dierbergs, and Shop ’n Save announced an agreement on wages and health care benefits covering...

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  • Grocery jobs: Keep them union!

    Grocery jobs: Keep them union!

    November 7, 2003 By Joseph Hancock

    Workers’ Correspondence The cause of the supermarket strike is long-standing problems that have now reached the boiling point. I say this as someone who worked for Ralphs Supermarkets for 13 years in the service bakery and...

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  • U of M workers victory

    U of M workers victory

    November 7, 2003

    MINNEAPOLIS – Striking clerical workers at the University of Minnesota have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with the university administration and will return to work on Nov. 5. The 1,900 workers, members of...

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  • Hold Wal-Mart accountable

    Hold Wal-Mart accountable

    October 31, 2003

    Opinion All across the country Wal-Mart is cashing in on family tragedies. After Doug Sims, a Wal-Mart employee in Plainview, Texas, died of a heart attack in 1998, his wife, Jane, found out exactly what Wal-Mart...

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